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Memoir and Biography: Memory, Politics, Secrets & Silence

Presented by the Department of Teaching and Learning at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 5:00 to 7:00 pm

Blanche Wiesen Cook Distinguished Professor, John Jay College, and CUNY Graduate Center, Department of History

Bettina Aptheker Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies Department and [...]

NYU Queer Comics Series 2010

The Queer Comics Series at NYU is a program of the Office of LGBT Student Services. The series focuses on accessible and popular representations of sexual and gender diversity. The Queer Comics series spotlights depictions of LGBT people in graphic novels and comics, and provides a venue for Queer identified graphic novelists and comic [...]

Consigned to Memory: The Archive of Hope Mirrlees

Brown Bag Lunch Talk

April 5, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM

Sandeep Parmar, CSGS Visiting Scholar

Hope Mirrlees’ (1887-1978) psychogeographical long poem Paris (published by the Hogarth Press in 1920) is a prime example of modernist writing that predates (and perhaps influenced) T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. This talk will consider some previously unacknowledged [...]

2010 New York Fornés Festival: Maria Irene Fornés

March 25th to April 5th, 2010

Presented by INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc)  in association with NYU’s Department of English

INTAR (Eduardo Machado, Artistic Director/John McCormack, Executive Director) will join New York University’s Department of English and its Program in Dramatic Literature to celebrate the 80th birthday of playwright, director and teacher Maria Irene [...]

Riggio Forum: Women in Letters and Literary Arts @ the New School

Monday, March 1st @ 6:30 p.m.

Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall 66 West 12th Street — Room 510 New York, NY

WILLA (Women in Letters and Literary Arts) will celebrate the formation of their new organization with a reading and panel presentation at the New School in New York, NY.

Merging the creative and [...]

Escapology: Feeling the Art of Speculative Fiction

February 8, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM

Katie Brewer Ball, Doctoral Candidate, Performance Studies, NYU

The “more speculative genres,” as Junot Diaz calls them, such as science fiction and fantasy continue to enthusiastically capture the attention and interest of the American public. What precisely, is the draw that such stories hold for mass consumers, [...]

Modernism’s Gifts: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Novel

Rebecca Colesworthy, Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought, NYU

December 7, Monday 12:30 to 1:45 PM

Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality 41-51 East 11th Street, Room 709 between University Place and Broadway wheelchair access at 85-87 University Place between 11th & 12th Streets

This talk proposes a connection between [...]

The Audre Lorde/Essex Hemphill Memorial Lecture: HORTENSE SPILLERS

November 4th, Wednesday 7:00 PM

The Skylight Room (9100) The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th & 35th Streets

Sponsored by the Africana Studies Concentration and co-sponsored by IRADAC, The Center for the Study of Women and Society, and the PhD Program in English

Inaugurated by Hortense Spillers, [...]